Okay, not to be completely overshadowed by Desert X—which takes place in Coachella Valley, the Low Desert—the Joshua Treenial will be returning to the High Desert for its second iteration with “Event Horizon” from March 31–April 2, 2017. Two dozen artists will be...
He turned into a commonly recognized name in the wake of pickling the carcasses of a sheep, a cow and even a shark, in formaldehyde, and suspending them in glass tanks. Be that as it may, Britart star Damien Hirst's work isn't to everybody's taste. What's more, every...
Thanks to everyone who submitted work for Politically Inspired Art: Part 2. I received three times the number of submissions as I did for Part 1! Topics ranged from homelessness to guns, immigration, women’s rights, the environment, and of course, the increasingly...
Painting by Mauricio Cárdenas, Make America White Again, 2017, acrylic on canvas, included in the Guadalajara, Mexico, exhibition, “Fuck The Wall,” which is a featured article written by Mexican art writer Gerardo Lammers in this issue.
Last week’s online political art exhibition was a hit! (Click here to see the exhibition.) However, I failed to put a deadline on the call for entries and I’m still getting submissions. So we’re going to do Part 2 next week. Here’s the info, this time with a deadline:...
Welcome to the blog’s first curated online exhibition! The call for entries was for work that had been inspired by recent politics. I’ve selected 12 from the many responses I received. They represent a variety of media and include work that was meant to be overtly...
Thanks to everyone who responded to last week’s survey about how politics is affecting you. According to the survey, a whole lot of us -- 84% -- are running around with our hair on fire! SurveyMonkey generates a word cloud based on text responses -- the more often a...
I want to thank everyone who wrote supporting my political tirade after the inauguration (if you missed it, click here). There were also a few who weren’t so supportive and demanded to be removed from my mailing list. If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been, don't...
Metamorphosis can refer to processes both natural and supernatural; but the works in Douglas Tausik Ryder’s exhibition of this title, while they reference the commonly understood biomorphic dimension, also encompass a much larger domain: the metamorphosis between...
I finally made my first visit to LA’s Broad museum this week. Even though it opened in September, I waited until I could easily get free tickets online rather than standing in a long line in front of the museum. Who are you trying to kid? You only went because you...
This Saturday, January 21st, one day after inauguration day, thousands will take to the streets in Washington D.C. for the Women's March in protest of the incoming president.Los Angeles, of course, could not sit this one out. Holding our own installment, Women's March...
Do you feel you are living in some bizarre parallel universe? Is your head spinning, your anxiety spiking? Are you starting to worry you’re on a watchlist because you’ve signed so many petitions? Are you breathlessly hoping that Penthouse gets the sex tape,...
The famous physicist Richard Feynman once said, “Men should study hard what interests them in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” Dave Tourje is a living example of this philosophy as he is interested in practically everything from hot...
Tom Knechtel is one of the top ten "best of Los Angeles" shows in 2016, selected by staff writer Ezrha Jean Black.
Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful holiday and didn’t over-eat as much as I did! I want to start the new year off with a couple of announcements.First, you may have noticed that the name of this blog has changed to Jane Chafin: Offramp. The name references the...
Artist Keith Walsh is interviewed by Mat Gleason, discussing his art, an art that stands at the crossroads of aesthetics and activism.
Starring: Jacqueline Novak, Max Wittert, Julio Torres, Eric Schwartau, Steven Phillips-Horst, Jacob Berezin, camera by Daniel Rampulla, sound by Spencer Plassman, edited by Steven Phillips-Horst, featuring music by Physical Therapy.Talk Hole is Steven Phillips-Horst...
I have seen Doug Aitken’s video work Electric Earth many times over the last 15 years, but seeing it recently at his sprawling new retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, I suddenly grasped that the piece is presenting something new. The only...
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